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oblong, subeordate above; stamens slightly exserted or included; anthers purple; 

 style twice as long as the corolla, deeply parted ; capsule glabrous, acute at apex, 

 shorter than the calyx, indehiscent, closely appressed to the solitary seed. 



Sandy soil in partial shade of brush or rocks, 1000 to 2500 feet : Sierra Nevada 

 foothills from Mariposa Co. to Fresno Co. Apr.-June. 



Locs. — Mariposa Co.: Mt. Bullion (3 mi. s.) , Hoover 3410 ; Mariposa, Con^adon; Mormon Bar, 

 Congdon; Pea Eidge road, Congdon. Madera Co.: Ahwahnee, Jepson 12,823. Fresno Co.: Big 

 Sandy Valley, e. base Black Mt., Hoover 3468. 



Refs. — Phacelia platyloba Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 17:223 (1882), type loe. Fresno Co., 

 Parry; Jepson, Man. 822 (1925). 



20. P. tanacetifolia Benth. Valley Fiddle-Neck. (Fig. 403.) Stem erect, 

 stout, often hollow, sparingly branched, li/4 to 4 feet high, bristly-hirsute with 

 scattered spreading hairs, the leaves thinly hispidulous, the racemes densely bristly- 

 hirsute ; leaf -blades ovate in outline, 6 to 9 inches long, 

 once or twice pinnately divided or pinnatifid, often very 

 finely divided, the ultimate pinnae 2 to 11 lines long and 

 toothed or pinnatifid ; racemes 2 to 4 inches long, ascend- 

 ing and compactly approximate in an umbel-like panicle, 

 usually remote from the leaves ; calyx-lobes linear, beset 

 with rigid bristles, in fruit little exceeding the oval cap- 

 sule ; corolla blue, open-campanulate, 3 to 4 lines long, the 

 lobes ascending ; scales usually wholly adnate, tapering 

 to apex, the pairs connivent in front of filament by the 

 dilated middle portion ; stamens exserted (IVi to 2 times 

 as long as corolla) ; o\ailes 2 in each cell ; fruiting pedicels 

 erect ; capsule hairy only at apex. 



Sandy or clay foothills, plains or valley flats, 50 to 

 3000 feet : North Coast Ranges in Lake Co. ; South Coast 

 Ranges from Contra Costa Co. to San Luis Obispo Co. ; 

 Great Valley from Colusa and Sutter Cos. to Kern Co. ; 

 Tehachapi Mts. ; Sierra Nevada (foothills and middle al- 

 titudes) from Stanislaus Co. to Kern Co. ; southern Inyo 

 Co.; central and western Mohave Desert; cismontane Southern California; north- 

 western Colorado Desert. South to Lower California, east to Arizona. Mar.-May. 



Tax. note. — In Phacelia tanacetifolia the ovary and capsule are hairy only at apex. In Pha- 

 celia distans, P. ramosissima, and P. vallis mortae the ovary and capsule are densely hairy, at least 

 to below the middle. In all of these species the hairs of the ovary are essentially alike. In the 

 case of Phacelia cicutaria (and its various forms) and P. cryptantha the hairs of the ovary and 

 capsule are of two distinct kinds, a soft underlying puberulence mixed with bristles which usually 

 arise from dark spots. As to other differences it may be noted that in Phacelia tanacetifolia, 

 P. distans and P. ramosissima the calyx closely invests the capsule, whereas in P. cicutaria and its 

 var. hispida and in P. cryptantha the calyx-lobes spread away from the capsule somewhat above 

 its base. — R. F. Hoover. 



Locs. — North Coast Ranges: Clear Lake (e. side), M. S. BaTcer 3976b (perhaps recently in- 

 troduced). South Coast Ranges: Somersville, n. of Mt. Diablo, Chesnut # Drew: Alum Rock, 

 Mt. Hamilton Range, Elmer 4720; Willow Creek School, cent. San Benito Co., Jepson 16,127; San 

 Ardo, Salinas Valley, Jepson 19,085 ; San Luis Mt., San Luis Obispo Co., B. W. Summers. Great 

 Valley: Stone Corral Cafion below Sites, Colusa Co., Hoover 3230; Butte Pass, Marysville Buttes, 

 Jepson 21,032; Woodland, Yolo Co., BlanMnship ; Brentwood, e. Contra Costa Co., Linda Gehrin- 

 ger; Tracy, San Joaquin Co., A. D. Tenney; Romain sta., w. Stanislaus Co., Jepson 15,725 ; Delhi, 

 Merced Co., Jepson 18,407; Arroyo Hondo wash (4 mi. n. of Cantua Creek), w. Fresno Co., Jepson 

 16,942 ; Arvin, s. of Bakersfield, Edith A. Purer. Tehachapi Mts. : Tejon Rancho, Allison Krames. 

 Sierra Nevada: Knights Ferry, Stanislaus Co., F. W. Bancroft; Clough Cave, South Fork Kaweah 

 River, W. Fry 336; Poso Mine, Poso Creek, Kern Co., C. N. Smith 61; Sharktooth Hill, Greenhorn 

 foothills, ne. of Bakersfield, Allison Krames. Inyo Co.: Great Falls Canon, Argus Mts., Wheeler 

 4- Richardson. Mohave Desert: Daggett (10 mi. a.), Mari/ Beai; Randsburg, HeHpr 7695; Kramer 

 (10 mi. e.), C. L. Hitchcock 12,258; Lancaster (w. ot),Clohey 4- Templeton 4659; Big Rock Creek, 

 n. slope San Gabriel Mts., Mum 6813. Cismontane S. Cal. : Cuyama Valley, ne. Santa Barbara 

 Co., Mum 13,601; Portal Eidge, n. Los Angeles Co., Jepson 17,066; Playa del Rey, Los Angeles, 



Fig. 403. Phacelia TANA- 

 CETIFOLIA Benth. Fl., X 5. 



